RT Journal
A1 Gulati, Divesh
A1 Aggarwal, Aditya
A1 Singh, Arun P.
T1 Complications of Titanium and Stainless Steel Elastic Nail Fixation of Pediatric Femoral Fractures
JF The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
JO The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
YR 2009
FD August 1
VO 91
IS 8
SP 2040
OP 2041
DO 
UL http://dx.doi.org/
AB 
We read with interest the article "Complications of Titanium and Stainless Steel Elastic Nail Fixation of Pediatric Femoral Fractures" (2008;90:1305-13), in which Wall et al. report a 23.2% rate of malunion with use of titanium elastic nails in pediatric femoral fractures. This rate is unusually high when compared with the malunion rates of approximately 10% in similar published studies on the use of this device1-7.